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David McCullough’s The Path Between the Seas chronicles the nearly half‑century effort that saw the Panama Canal rise from a French gambit to a U.S. triumph before World War I. Drawing on unpublished documents, interviews, and archives from Paris, Bogotá, Panama, the Canal Zone, and Washington, McCullough presents a vivid, fact‑rich narrative that places the engineering achievement alongside the lives it changed— from Ferdinand de Lesseps and his son to Theodore Roosevelt and Dr. William Gorgas, as well as the ordinary men and women who labored under the greatest global scale of its time.
First publish date: 1977
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: David McCullough
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